March 9, 2009

Filming on Saturday
We had to do some more shootings of Andy walking lonely and drunk as he roamed in the streets. I got some shots of buildings which were quite nice as they showed his surroundings. Then this time, I made sure the boom mic was out of the camera lense's sight as there was a scene when I previously shot had the existence of the boom mic's shadow. Therefore, we were extra careful and cautious of the shadows in every scene. We had a scene where he is staring at the church, and walking outside the church, drinking a bottle of beer. It was a nice effect and they were extras for our film. We then got beer bottles for Andy and I had a dutch angle of him walking along the path, but realizes he ran out of beer, he drops the bottle and the bottle breaks. Then, Henry suggested to do a close-up of the bottle, which turned out pretty well as the when I filmed, there were cars' headlights reflecting on the bottle pieces, making the glass glitter in the dark. We also had a shot of "Andy coming out of the building while Medora waits for him" outside a building on Ventris Road (Henry's place), I closed-up on Medora's eyes to show tension and to show where she was looking at. It took 2.5 hours to finish all the shots and they were successful.

Class
We have two more days till the due date of the film.
As we re-shot some of the scenes on Saturday night, we had to upload the footage to the computer.
We worked on the editing today and I thought Andy did pretty well. He asked us for some opinions for the transitions and we did some minor changes based on the group's opinions. I think we have good time management as everything is according to plan. Since it was a single lesson, we used this lesson to continue to edit our film. After the footage was uploaded, we checked the film and cut out unwanted parts. THERE WAS NO SIGN OF THE BOOM MIC'S SHADOW! We stayed back to continue working on it and Andy seemed nearly done. I believe we will manage to finish by next class.

Referring to the IB Learner Profile, I strived to be communicators, risk-takers, open-minded and principled. I "communicated" with my fellow group members and collaborated with each other, working most efficiently; taking "risks", I bravely gave ideas and explored different angles; "open-minded" to other people's suggestions and seeking a range of perspective through different points of views of others; and lastly, "principled" as I took responsibility to my own acts.